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BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — Colombians unhappy with President Iván Duque’s response to nearly a week of boisterous protests are taking to the streets again Wednesday demonstrating over issues ranging from tax reform to shark hunting quotas in the biggest display of unrest the nation has seen in decades.

Over the past few decades, Bolivia has transformed in a way that many considered irreversible.

The ruling is expected to cause contention among Fujimori’s supporters and detractors.

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s Constitutional Tribunal narrowly approved a habeas corpus request Monday to free opposition leader Keiko Fujimori from preliminary detention while she is investigated for alleged corruption.

BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — Students, women’s activists and indigenous people marched through the center of Colombia’s capital Monday in a fifth day of protests against the government as the country recorded the first death of a demonstrator.

The protest was a response to high rates of femicide in the country, one of the highest in Latin America.

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — A center-right candidate appeared Monday to have ended 15 years of left-leaning government in Uruguay, but the presidential runoff election was so close that the result may not be certain until Thursday.

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian lawmakers on Saturday unanimously approved a measure calling for new presidential elections that would exclude former leader Evo Morales, a key step toward pacifying a nation rocked by unrest since an Oct. 20 marred by reported irregularities.

The day was chosen to remember the Mirabal sisters who were killed during a dictatorship in the Dominican Republic

On balance, Piñera’s four speeches were more positive than negative—a perhaps surprising finding, given what is now clear about the depth of Chile’s crisis.

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Erika Lorena Aifán is used to threats after more than a decade as a judge in Guatemala, but she says the tone has intensified in recent months, such as the text message to her cellphone saying that she and her family “should be dead.”

TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — Nkeze wasn’t home when Cameroonian militants came knocking, probably to deliver their signature ultimatum to join their separatist movement or have his writing arm cut off.

In this Latino USA segment, Maria Hinojosa talks to Gabby Rivera about her beginnings as a writer, her experience with #comicsgate and about her first original comic series “b.b. free.”

In Cali, southeast of the country, the mayor declared a curfew from 7 p.m. until Friday morning.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Political violence broke out at a Roman Catholic church in the Nicaraguan city of Masaya on Thursday as government sympathizers attacked parishioners with clubs, machetes and metal bars.

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — After a month of deadly unrest, the political party of former Bolivian President Evo Morales appears to be positioning itself for a future without the man who led the country for 14 years.

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The United States has begun carrying out a landmark policy shift on asylum that’s a top priority of President Donald Trump, returning a Honduran immigrant to Guatemala to pursue his asylum case.

The anti-government protests are set to take place in cities across the country are expected to be the largest in recent history.

A jury in Arizona has acquitted an activist on charges he illegally helped two migrant men from Central America evade authorities.

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — The death toll from an operation by Bolivian security forces to clear the blockade of a fuel plant by anti-government protesters has risen to at least eight, officials said Wednesday.

Invoking a Christian god as the source of political power, while commonplace in many countries, is a departure in Bolivia after Evo Morales’ 14-year tenure.